Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Bank regulation"”.
-
Essays on Systemic Banking Crises and Bank Regulation
… rates and inflation are not reported as systemic banking crisis determinants when estimated over a full business cycle. When studies such as these are conducted we find that the choice of panel time-span is highly relevant. Using a shorter panel (1998-2011) involving 75 countries, we show that …
-
Bank regulation, supervision and financial stability: An empirical study
This PhD thesis explores the relationship between banking regulations and supervision, and financial stability. In terms of the financial stability, I focus on the banking industry and, particularly, on the role of foreign banks in the transmission of shocks through the lending channel. …
-
Optimal bank portfolio choice and bank regulation: The Indonesian case
… let each investor has k units of endowment, each bank has equity B, and monitoring cost depends on project size. In this model loan size per entrepreneur and the number of loans become choice variables (this makes the intermediary able to economize monitoring cost by investing more in one …
-
Bank regulation implications for managing accounting quality risk: a Basel and IFRS perspective
… change, had an impact on the five primary UK banks that adopted IASB’s IFRS accounting standards in 2005. The findings reveal that the changes in accounting standards resulted in the banks experiencing decreased levels of accounting quality and increased levels of exposure to financial …
-
Alternative Explanations of Commercial Bank Behavior and the Structure - Conduct - Performance Hypothesis
… a cornerstone of antitrust policy in general and bank regulation in particular.
-
Financial regulation and financial development in developing economies: case of South Africa
The study analyses financial regulation, specifically for the banking sector, set globally and implemented locally by different countries, and how it impacts financial development in the context of developing countries, considering the pace of reform since the 2008/9 financial crises and its …
-
Essays in banking and monetary policy
In the first chapter, I demonstrate that banks play a special role in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy, and that this role potentialy explains the excessive sensitivity and asymmetric response of the real economy to small and temporary changes in interest rates. While banks exploit …
-
Financial intermediation and interest rate risk
… their balance sheet composition and national bank regulation. The regulatory authorities both in the US and in Europe increasingly emphasise the issue of bank interest rate exposure. The importance of this topic is also reasserted by recent developments in the monetary environment. The thesis …
-
Comparing bank mergers in Europe and the USA: bidding bank performance
Banking is different from the provision of other goods and services and of pivotal importance to economic growth and financial development. Against the background of continuing merger activity in the US and European banking sectors, this thesis (i) compares the performance implications of bank …
-
The impact of the change from Basel II to Basel III on the profitability of the South African banking sector
… III on the profitability of the South African banking sector. South African banks are regulated in accordance with the Basel Accords and, as such, this study reviews the literature on bank regulation and specifically the evolution of the Basel Accords. The 2008 global financial crisis exposed …
-
Banks, credit and culture. Cross border lending and credit ratings, their effectiveness and the impact of cultural differences.
Having the author been involved in banking and finance for almost 25 years, this thesis intends to reflect on the role of banks with emphasis on cross border lending and credit rating, their effectiveness and the impacts of cultural differences. Perhaps this would not differ substantially from a …
-
Essays on the role of banking and finance in the South African economy
… and understand the interaction between the banking sector and the economy in South Africa. To do so, we evaluate the historical evolution of productivity in the South African banking industry in chapter 2, by calculating a measure of productivity through a descriptive exercise. In chapter 3, …
-
An Assessment of the Impact of Liquidity and Capital Regulatory Reforms on Retail Banks in the United Kingdom
… the impact of regulatory reforms on UK retail banks, specifically examining the effects on stock market value, technical efficiency, and profitability. Using a mixed-methods approach, the study analyses the Banking Reform Act (2013) and the Financial Services and Markets Act (2023), focusing on …
-
Essays in International Finance and Macroeconomics
… risk sentiment. We resolve this impasse by using bank-level data on the external assets and liabilities of UK-resident intermediaries to construct novel Granular Instrumental Variables (GIVs) that identify exogenous shocks to cross-border US dollar positions. Our GIVs reflect the unique positions …
-
Essays in Banking and Default
… In the first chapter, titled "Aggregate Risk and Bank Risk-Taking", I propose a general equilibrium model in which strategic interactions between banks and depositors may lead to endogenous bank fragility and a drop in investment and output. With some opacity in bank balance sheets, depositors …